I just caught up on your own thread. Sorry your ex insists on playing the arse.
I've had the boys this week. We had a great time camping last weekend with the cub scouts. S9 bridged over and is now a Webelo. Fall of 2011, S5 will be in First Grade and will join the Tiger Scouts. I'm looking forward to that.
S5 lost his first tooth today. We were at his soccer practice -- I thought he seemed more distracted than usual: Sure enough, at one point he waltzed over to the bench to hand me the tooth that finally came out (it had been becoming increasingly loose during the past couple of days.)
And S9 lost another tooth himself just this morning. The tooth fairy is being kept pretty darn busy -- two in one day.
xW is her usual asinine self. And the xMIL continues to be a real piece of work too. She got snippy with S9 over some paper he brought home from school, saying she didn't like what S9 and his friend had written to each other because it used the word "fart". She suddenly ripped and tore the paper up right in front of S9, greatly upsetting him. She shouldn't have done that, not in front of S9 -- and it was certainly unwise of her to have done it right in front of me. I said nothing, but I did not care for it at all.
xMIL later emailed me to apologize for reacting the way she did. I did not respond. While I am of a mind to let this matter drop, I'm now wondering what else goes on when I am not present.
xW continues to try to stop by my place in the mornings that I have custody of our S's, to give them hugs before going to work. It just seems so pathetic for her to insist on forcing herself into our kids time with me, like she cannot bear for more than a day or so for her influence to not be exerted upon them. She's become so darn anal and insecure.
But if/when she moves away in August, certainly she will have to cease these disruptive morning visits. So maybe we can tolerate it for a little while more.
